Rank-Up-Magic Monstrous Promotion

I'd expect my fifth level of my monster classes to pass with little ceremony. A feeling of might, the certainty of better stats-in my case, mostly a solidity because of how my stats were defensive in nature. Nothing that would disrupt what I was planning in any way. Perhaps I should have seen something coming-after all, level 5 for my skills certainly had some significance, if my favorite skills sitting there stubbornly refusing to go up meant anything.

Alas, that lack of anything would not come to pass. At first, I desperately tried to do anything to hold off the feeling, not sure as to what was happening. Healing spells flew, my limbs flailed-but I wasn't damaged, and the source was deeper inside me, so these didn't do anything. All I could do was to witness what happened to me-God's Eyes letting my get a slight heads-up as to what exactly was going on.

That revealed to me that my classes had changed. I was no longer a Verdure/Erosarkic. I was an Assassin Vine/Living Wall-and all I was feeling was my body changing to reflect this. Just as normal classes could promote, monster classes evolved. The wooden plates that had once let me pretend to be a more normal tree began to shrink away-their material used to produce thin, thorn-covered strands to add to my repertoire. In fact, in general, my vines became more numerous and spindly-but seemingly, not a bit weaker as I experimentally coiled them.

Part of that was how I simply grew more massive overall-roots digging deeper into the ground as the tangle of my form grew more intricate with my writhing motions. The more passive among my many progeny seemed content to use the chance to rest in the shade my size now provided-not seemingly any concern over what's going on.

Meanwhile, my more tentacular half was not a constant either. It looked-and frankly, felt like-I was melting, the flesh dripping under its new mass. And this wasn't just an appearance-when I attempted to coil two around each other in an act like clenching a fist at an uncomfortable stimulus, I found that they reflexively passed right through each other with only a ripple, like waves passing through one another. Getting an idea from the name of my new class-and yep, just as surely as they moved passed each other, so too could they fuse to form unified slabs of sheer flesh-and then redivide just as easily.

Naturally, of course, with my new classes came new skills for me to take for a spin...

Assimilate (Living Wall)(Level 1)-As an Endurance-based attack against a grappled target, partially merge flesh of target into your own, keeping them grappled until they are cut free of you, or this ability is used again to release them.

Creeping Ivy (Assassin Vine)(Level 1)-Reduce your visibility to blend in with surrounding foliage, increasing in effectiveness with density of cover.

...after taking a night to let my mind de-stress. Today was full of so much crap, I can't even focus much on anything. All I can say is that my first reflexive response to the first ability was 'I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going', although that ship has frankly, set sail a long time ago. And circumnavigated the earth, returning laden with exotic spices and attractive slaves. The night is spent meditating in order to clear myself-the closest thing I get to a proper rest while still letting myself stay in my actual shape. Gonna try and keep my ability to change under my hat from the group at large in case I need to slip away.